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The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom has been operating in Israel since 1983 and established its Palestinian Desk in 1994. With an Israeli-Palestinian team in a joint office in Jerusalem the foundation aims to be a platform of innovation for enhancing freedom in society, strengthening dialogue with the European Union and contribute to the advancement of Israeli-Palestinian dialogue leading towards peace. Together with our partners, we want to strengthen liberal core values like the rule of law and democracy, the respect of human dignity with civil and human rights, market economy principles and entrepreneurship and a democratic culture of tolerance and pluralism.
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Israel's Bennett-Lapid Government is a Victory for Democracy
The new and most ideologically diverse government in the history of Israel does not raise high expectations. It seems neither Left nor Right expect paradise from a coalition built on so much compromise. Yet to the polarized political climate of recent years, this is revolutionary. Only a month ago Israel faced one of the worst eruptions of communal violence in years.
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Call for Palestine Desk Coordinator
We are looking for our next Palestine Desk Coordinator at the FNF Jerusalem office. For our Israeli-Palestinian team in Jerusalem we need a coordinator for managing our activities in the Palestinian Territories, analyzing political and social trends and advancing Israeli-Palestinian dialogue leading towards peace.
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The Illusion of Peace without the Palestinians Is Fading
Ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and the Islamic Jihad so far holds after more than 4,000 rockets at Israel, with 12 dead, according to Israeli sources, and Israeli air strikes on more than 800 targets in the Gaza Strip, with more than 240 dead, according to Palestinian sources. Military experts believe that Israel achieved in one week as many tactical objectives in Gaza with targeted air strikes, as it did in seven weeks of a costly ground offensive in 2014.
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Elections in Israel: End time for „King Bibi“
A week before elections, Israeli views on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remain divided. A repeated stalemate could result in a fifth elections within two years. Nevertheless, the end of Netanyahu's time in power is near - while a liberal center is stabilizing under Yesh Atid. Analysis by our Israel expert Julius von Freytag-Loringhoven.
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“Vaccination Nation“ Israel – A Role Model for Germany?
With over 100,000 vaccinations on Thursday with more than 4.6 Million people in Israel, half the country is vaccinated. Over 35% of the population already received their immunizing second dose. After the astonishment over the Israeli Start-Up boom of the last two decades, the international community awaits the “secret recipe” of the Israeli vaccination-miracle.
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Israel One to Four: 1 Deadlock, 2 Years, 3 Lockdowns, 4 Elections
On the night of the 22nd of December 2020, the Knesset (Israeli parliament) disbanded, sending Israel to early elections only 9 months after its last. This will be the fourth round of Israeli elections in just two years, and according to current polls even a fifth round might be around the corner.
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Female Forward - Three Outstanding Women Sharing Their Experience
We are honored to present to you the voices of three outstanding women from our FNF Alumni network. Former Minister of Health Yael German, Arab entrepreneur Bissan Salman & and journalist Nitzan Senior Shneor. The three women share their experience and advice with young female leaders on how to best pursue their goals and how to succeed despite the many hurdles along the way.
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Israel-Turkey Relations Are Not Only About Erdoğan and Netanyahu
2020 raised hopes that Israel and Turkey may be on their way to improve ties, despite policy differences and lack of trust. “Turkey wants better ties with Israel”, said Turkey’s President, raising speculations that the countries may send back ambassadors to each other’s capitals before too long. This will be a positive development, but Israelis and Turks should not let the fate of their countries’ relations be dependent only on their leaders’ will.
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Palestinian National Dialogue in Cairo Ahead of Upcoming Elections
The Palestinian National Dialogue sessions kicked off today in Cairo under the auspices of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. The meetings held today focus on various necessary procedures for holding the upcoming legislative and presidential elections and how to end the long lasting national division between West Bank and Gaza, Fatah and Hamas.
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First Offline Meeting After Lock Down of ME 2.0 Forum - 70th Session
The spirits were high when the members of the ME 2.0 Palestinian-Israeli Young Business Leaders Forum met last week for their first offline meeting after the long Corona lockdown break. While the ME community stayed in contact and continued their activity via zoom sessions also during the lock down months, it became quickly clear that digital sessions are in the end no real compensation for face to face life encounter.
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Crisis Communication - JEST 8th Session
When your company or organization faces a crisis, what can you do to keep and protect your company's reputation? How to handle a crisis?
We would like to share with you Ms. Nour Nusseibeh's presentation on "Crisis Communication", from the joint 8th session with our partner, JEST.
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Inbound Marketing - JEST 7th Session
Our joint event with JEST dealt with inbound marketing, which is a technique for drawing customers to products and services via valuable content marketing, social media marketing, search engine optimization and branding.
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How to overcome the psychological effects of the spread of the Coronavirus?
Here are few tips on how to overcome the psychological effects of the spread of the Corona virus. This video is part of the campaign "From woman to woman, together we survive" by our partner Pscho-social Counselling Center for Women (PSCCW) in cooperation with FNF Jerusalem.
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A Successful Startup Story & ADHD Treatment - JEST 6th Session
Meet Mr. Rami Shacour, CEO & Co-Founder of'Innosphere'. In this online chat during JEST's 6th online session, Mr. Shacour shared his successful startup, Innosphere, which developed a medical device to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) patients which requires no drugs nor medication. It is known that 7.2% of the world's children suffer from ADHD.It is a medical device (cap) placed on the head with electrodes embedded in the cap to deliver electrical charges to the brain.This cap is worn 20 minutes a day for 15 days made for children ages 7-12. The effect of this treatment lasts 3 months.
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Confronting the Coronavirus Disinformation
Confronting the coronavirus disinformation:
The corona virus stands as a major international health hazard. It also caused an economic crisis of an unpreceded and still unknown dimension, and has caused great personal and social strains due to quarantine and social distancing rules. In addition to the spread of the virus, a different and dangerous threat has been spreading rapidly as well: disinformation.
Since the corona crisis began, social media platforms have been swamped with false information about the virus, the way it spreads, who is responsible for the outbreak, what kind of medicines can assist in recovery and other conspiracy theories such as the “5G technology conspiracy”.
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What do we learn from the crisis? How digital can and must education be? How can the modernisation of state and economy succeed? What does the Europe of the future look like? We are looking for answers: Share with us your Ideas for the future and be part of the international conference starting tomorrow! plus.freiheit.org/global-ambitions #RESTART21 #GlobalAmbitions
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Today Iran holds its presidential elections. On this occasion, we would like to share the foundation’s special MENAPOL issue, in which we offer reflections and insights into the role of Iran in the region. How will the election affect the regime’s regional policy choices? And how is Iran preparing itself for a new presidency? Experts from the FNF offices in our region of the Middle East have come up with answers to these questions, which you will find in the Iran Dossier. This includes an article titled "An Israeli view on Iran after Netanyahu" by our director Julius von Freytag-Loringhoven. For the full analysis go to: http://tinyurl.com/Iran-Dossier #IranElections #MENA #Israel #Iraq #Lebanon #Syria #Yemen #SaudiArabia #Analysis
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We continue our Workshop in Haifa, with a training session for mediation and team strategy with Arik Segal. We then took advantage of the few hours of sunlight we still had left, and tour historical landmarks of the Carmel. After that, we returned to our training schedule, and learned about proper use of Google Applications.
